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For those who died sudden (sudden) death

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Your destinies are inscrutable, Lord! Your ways are unsearchable! Give breath to every creature and bring everything from those who do not exist into being, You send the Angel of death to him on a Day he does not know, and at an hour he does not expect; You snatch it from the hand of death, granting life with your last breath; Be patient and give time for repentance; You, like a grain, cut it with the sword of death in one hour, in the twinkling of an eye; You strike Ovago with thunder and lightning, you burn Ovago with flame, and you betray Ovago as food for wild beasts; You commanded them to be swallowed up by the waves and the abysses of the sea and the abysses of the earth; You kidnap them with a destructive ulcer, even as death, like the reaper, reaps and separates father or mother from their children, brother from brother, husband from wife, and tears the baby from the womb swearing, casts the mighty of the earth, the rich and the poor, lifeless. What the hell is this? Your look is wondrous and bewildering to us, O God!

But Lord, Lord! You are the only One who knows everything, weight, why this happens and why it happens, like Your servant (name) in one blink of an eye was consumed by a gaping hole death. If you are punishing him for his many, grave sins, we pray to You, the Many-Merciful and All-Merciful Lord, do not reprove him with Your wrath and punish him to the end, but through goodness Yours and according to Your unconditional mercy, show him Your great mercy in the forgiveness and remission of sins.

What if your deceased servant, thinking about the Day of Judgment in this life, recognized his own damnation and wanted to bring you fruits worthy of repentance, but did not achieve this, and was called by you to a day we do not know, and in an hour we do not expect, for this reason we pray to You, Most Good and Most Merciful Lord, unfinished repentance, even Your eyes have seen, and unfinished correct, arrange, complete the work of his salvation with Your ineffable goodness and love for mankind; For the imams have only one hope in Your infinite mercy: for You have judgment and punishment, You have truth and inexhaustible mercy; You punish, but at the same time you are merciful; beat, and accept together; We diligently pray to You, Lord our God, do not punish the one suddenly called to You by Your Last Judgment, but have mercy, have mercy on him and do not cast him away from Your presence.

Oh, it’s scary to suddenly fall into Your hands, Lord, and appear before Your impartial judgment! It is terrible to come to You without a gracious farewell, without Repentance and communion of Your Holy, terrible and life-giving Mysteries, Lord! If your servant, whom we remember, suddenly died, he is only a great sinner, he is only guilty of condemnation at Your righteous court, we pray to You, have mercy on him, do not condemn him to eternal torment, eternal death; Be patient with us, give us the length of our days, even as we pray to You all our days for Your departed servant, until You hear us and accept Your mercy suddenly who has gone to You; and grant us, Master, to wash away his sins with tears of contrition and our sighs before You, so that Your servant (name) may not be brought down by his sin to the place of torment, but may he dwell in resting place.

You Yourself, Lord, commanded to strike at the door of Your mercy, we pray to You, O Most Generous King, and we will not cease to implore Your mercy and cry out with the repentant David: Have mercy, have mercy on Your servant, O God, according to the greatness of Your mercy.

If You are dissatisfied with our words, with this little prayer of ours, we beseech You, Lord, with faith in Your saving merits, with trust in the redemptive and miraculous power of Your sacrifice, offered by You for the sins of the whole world; We pray to You, O Sweetest Jesus! You are the Lamb of God, take away the sins of the world, be crucified for our salvation! We pray to You, as our Savior and Redeemer, save and have mercy and deliver eternal torment to the soul of Your suddenly deceased servant (name), who is constantly remembered by us, do not leave him perish forever, but be worthy to reach Your quiet refuge and rest there, where all Your saints will rest.

Together we pray to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ our God, by Thy mercy accept all Thy servants (names) who suddenly came to Thee, whom the water covered, the coward embraced, killed by the murderers, struck by fire, hail, snow, filth, hunger and the spirit of the storm of the dead, thunder and lightning struck, struck by a destructive ulcer, or some other wine Having died, by Your will and permission, we pray to You, accept them under Your mercy and resurrect them into eternal, holy and blessed life. Amen.

Source: Prayers for every deceased. Compiled by: Tatiana Lagutina. "RIPOL Classic"

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